On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:04:16 +0200, Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fr, den 22.10.2004 schrieb Roy W. Erickson um 22:47: > > > Thanks for the info. How about if we choose to install a W2k server, is > > the current bind capable of working with the Directory Server? > > What Microsoft implemented as dynamic DNS within the whole AD setup is > not compatible to anything (even the used kerberos is not standard > conform). You can combine bind and the DNS on a Win2k Server if you > don't rely on the AD capabilities. > > > Is there a way to get DHCP to feed it's assignments to the DNS server? > > Yes, sure. There is documentation about that. Dag Wieers for instance > did wrote a howto: http://dag.wieers.com/howto/bits/bind-ddns.php > Maybe look complicated at first sight, but isn't. > > > Roy > > Alexander Well, I wish I'm not saying this just for the reason this is a FC2 list, but MS DNS server integrated with Active Directory does provide a "Multi-Master" environment instead of the traditional Master/Salve setup. and if integrated with MS DHCP server, it also allows automatic DNS updates of the client records as well. And it's very easy to setup.(minus the AD part that is). With that said, I wouldn't go as far as to host any public DNS zones on the Internet with it, I'm just not comfortable with MS boxes talking to the internet directly in any way. But for internal DNS zones...sure, it's easier to manage for most people than to run FC with BIND. Yang
